Day -2

Gonna start again.  May 1st.  Barf.  But seriously it made me feel much better.  I only ran 1 time this week because I am kind of depressed.  I hate my job.

Day 46-7/44-5/Reintroduction day 13-4

4/20:
Breakfast: someone brought breakfast casserole
Lunch: last of the chicken chili verde, 1/4 avocado
Dinner: pizza casserole
Snack: a bunch of caramel corn and some waffli  (not compliant)

Exercise: ice skating and C25K week 4 day 3


4/21:
Breakfast: mushroom frittata
Lunch: leftover pizza casserole
Dinner: TJ's beef bulkogi, will roast up some sort of veggie
Snack: banana, almond butter.  Some werther's originals (not compliant, obv)

Exercise: plan week 5 day 1 tonight... we'll see.

Feelings: so sleepy.  Woke up at 3 and couldn't get back to sleep until 5:30.  Blah

Day 45/43/Reintroduction day 12

Wasn't feeling great today.  Didn't eat well.  Like 100% carbs.  I'm also up 3 lbs again

Breakfast: Quaker oat squares.  2 bowls

Lunch: orange.  2 lemon ricotta cookies

Dinner: leftover sweet potato. 2 waffli

Exercise: none

Feelings: Intestines are ROUGH.  Really need to go back on whole 30.  Plan for tomorrow's meals:

Breakfast: mushroom frittata
Lunch: chicken chili verde, 1/4 avocado, orange
Dinner: pizza/spag squash casserole
Snack: Larabar if I need it

My goal is to Whole30 until I leave for the AUA on May 5.  That's 15 days.  Then in San Diego, eat salads/fresh fish-still keep it light.  Then May/June Scott will be gone and I just need to stick with the program during the week.  On weekends we can maybe eat something off plan.  Like one little thing.  Then move in July-need to stay on the program until Norway-I can eat a little bit of fun stuff in Norway, but it's so expensive I think we just need to bring a bunch of food with us anyway.  So, basically I have 3 mo before Norway to eat well/get in shape, then 1 mo after before I start work.  Let's see how this goes...

Day 44/42/Reintroduction day 11

This is for yesterday

Breakfast: almond chia pud with banana

Lunch: chicken chili verde, 1/4 avocado. 

Dinner: roast chicken, roasted sweet potato

Snack: a million cookies

Exercise: none

Feelings: FAIL.  Also, I felt like a bomb was in my belly this morning.  My gut still hasn't recovered.  

Day 43/41/Reintroduction day 10

Breakfast: scrambled eggs with smoked salmon

Lunch: leftover drumsticks 2, ranch dressing (meal not compliant)

Dinner: beef tacos, guac

Snack: chia pudding, chocolate (not compliant)

Exercise 1 hr walk

Feelings: going to re-start whole30 tomorrow.  Will probably cheat with a lemon tart this week at some point.  We have some food goals to eat at before we move:

Melt
Skillet
The Pearl
Schmidt's
Brown Bag (we have a free sandwich coming)
Katzinger's

Days 40-42/38-40/Reintroduction day 7-9

So April 14th was birthday celebrations.  Went way off track.

Breakfast: 2 eggs, 2 bacon.
Lunch: chicken chili verde, orange, lemon larabar
Dinner: cobb salad, 1/2 piece sourdough bread.  1/2 piece amazing reese's pie. 1/2 bowl ice cream.  Birthdays, so ok.

Exercise: C25K week 4 day 2

April 15th things are starting to get out of hand

Breakfast: banana, almond butter
Lunch: chicken chili verde, orange, lemon larabar
Dinner: homemade beef tacos (no shell), tostones
Snack: chocolate chip cookie

Exercise: walked to work and back

April 16th:

Breakfast: lemon larabar (waiting in line for record store day)
Lunch: 2 pieces of hot chicken takeover with ranch dressing, 1.5 quarters of waffle
Dinner:
Snack: 2 pieces chocolate, yogurt, orange, strawberries

Exercise: 30 min ice skating

Feelings: overall, felt sick from the fried chicken. I can't do that anymore.  Really tired after running on the 14th-like, REALLY tired.  Today I just feel like I need to recommit because I've been eating whatever, and though it's low in calories, I don't feel as good as I did because of the sugar

Day 39/37/Reintroduction day 6

Breakfast: chia almond milk pudding with banana

Lunch: chicken chili verde, orange

Dinner: 2 chicken thighs

Snack: lemon larabar, peanut butter, yogurt with raspberries, hershey kiss

Exercise: ice skating class, C25K week 4 day 1

Feelings: I had a good run today!  My legs are sore.  A lady in my ward started Whole30 because of me and she is loving it, so I invited her and her husband to dinner Fri and now I wish I didn't socializing is hard.  Also, what's a good side for tacos when you can't eat beans or corn?

Day 38/36/Reintroduction day 5

Breakfast: leftover mushroom frittata

Lunch: chicken chili verde with 1/4 avocado, orange.  Hard boiled egg

Dinner: asian chicken thighs (2) with asparagus.  The skin is amazing

Snack: it was staff appreciation day at work, so I got an ice cream sundae.  I guess I'm officially off this whole30 thing now

Exercise: C25K week 3 day 3, 30 min of boxing video (week 1 day 1)

Feelings: kind of bloated, I'm not gonna lie.  Sleepy (I was at work from 10pm to 2am last night).  The sundae wasn't that great-I should just eat my healthy food; it's better.

Day 37/35/Reintroduction day 4

Breakfast: chia almond pudding, banana

Lunch: chicken salad sandwich sans bread (free applicant lunch) potato chips, after dinner mint

Dinner: braised short ribs, mashed sweet potatoes

Snacks: peanut butter M&Ms, orange

Exercise: none

Feelings: anger.  I hate being a dr.  8:45pm and on my 4th ER patient of the night.  Barf

Day 36/34/Reintroduction day 4

Reintroduced dairy today.  A LOT of dairy

Breakfast: mushroom fritatta

Lunch: a lot of cashews, pineapple, orange, yogurt, strawberries

Dinner: free food at Martini's for fellow applicant day.  Had the scallops with ricotta polenta, saffron sauce.  Creme brulee for dessert (first dessert in over a month.  It was good!)

Exercise: none.  Oops

Feelings: I feel like there's a bomb in my stomach waiting to go off.  Not in a good way

Day 35/33/Reintroduction day 3

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs, 1/2 avocado, salsa

Lunch: a million cashews, 1/2 lemon larabar

Dinner: TJ's chili lime burger with sweet potato fries, guac, fry sauce

Snacks: pineapple.  1/2 TJ's chocolate peanut butter reese's type thing (it was free, and DELICIOUS-first chocolate in 35 days!)

Exercise: C25k week 3 day 2, 1 hr ice skating

Feelings: pretty good!  I have to finish a paper this weekend and it is STRESSFUL.  My legs were a little achey after everything.  Also, I bought YOGURT at TJ's yesterday-that will be my first dairy in 34 days when I try it!!!

Day 34/32/Reintroduction day 2

Breakfast: leftover asparagus/mushroom frittata

Lunch: meatball soup, orange

Dinner: chipotle salad with chicken.  Guac, chips! (First grains in over 30 days)

Exercise: nothing. oops

Feelings: didn't sleep much last night on call.  So sleepy.  Stomach was crampy last night a couple hours after the peanut butter...

Day 33/31/Reintroduction day 1

Welp, I finished!  I weighed myself this morning and weighed 136 lbs, so I lost 8 lbs in 30 days.  Not bad!  I also feel a lot better generally.  I plan to stick with this kind of diet for the most part.  I want to be healthier by not eating much sugar and exercising more.

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs with 1/2 avocado and salsa

Lunch: meatball soup, 1 banana with almond butter

Dinner: fried cod tacos in lettuce wraps, guac.

Snack: a bunch of cashews, apple, PEANUT BUTTER

Yeah I ate peanut butter today.  Skippy's to be precise.  And it was DELICIOUS.  I probably should not eat it very often because it is so good.  And has added sugar.  And I panicked a little about that but then got over it by my 3rd spoonful.

Exercise: none really

Feelings: As above.  My new goals in life are to be happy and healthy and I think this way of eating is helping.  I want to keep on it. :)

Day 32/30

LAST DAY!  What?  CRAZY.

Breakfast: chia pudding almond milk with banana in it.  It was especially good today.  Hard boiled egg

Lunch: meatball soup.  Apple with almond milk

Dinner: Leftover spaghetti squash pizza casserole

Snack: berries, cashews

Exercise: ice skating class, C25K week 3 day 1

Feelings: I felt a bit rough GI wise last night after I posted.  Too much cabbage in the chicken pot I think.  Today I feel better.  I'm a little nervous for this to be over-I mean, I want to eat all the chocolate and cake and everything, but I also don't want to.  This has been good.  Tomorrow I'll weigh in and see how I am doing.  I feel like my skin cleared up on my arms and legs a bit (less bumpy).  I still am getting zits though.  My energy overall is better.  I feel like I lost weight and my arms are more toned.  Not a ton though-maybe down to my normalish weight (10 lbs less than I have been for the past 2 years).  We'll see though!  Mostly going to stick with my diet tomorrow.  Going to try some peanut butter maybe and see how that goes (though I packed almond butter in my lunch already.  Oops!)

Day 29/27

Breakfast: sweet potato hash, 2 fried eggs, cashews

Lunch: some leftover roast beef from last week, banana, almond butter

Dinner: chicken pot

Snack: cashews, raspberries

Exercise: 45 min walk with Scott

Feelings: I have to write this paper, and I really really don't want to.  I hate writing papers.

Day 31/29

Ack, this is almost over!  Stressful!

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs, 1/2 avocado, salsa

Lunch: meatball soup, orange

Dinner: leftover chicken in the pot. So good.  MMM

Snack: cashews, banana, almond butter

Exercise: basically nothing.  fail

Feelings: I'm sad today.  I'm worried about what job to take because I really like Austin, but Maryland will work the best.  Plus it's only 4 days a week.  That has to be good, right?

Day 30/28

I'd have been done if not for that bowl of cereal.  Womp womp

Breakfast: banana, almond butter, hard boiled egg

Lunch: meatball soup, orange

Dinner: spaghetti squash pizza casserole

Snacks: a billion cashews

Exercise: none really.  Oops

Feelings: eh.  I really wanted a donut

Day 28/26

Breakfast: mushroom and asparagus frittata.  Not great.  Pineapple

Lunch: leftover chicken leg, guac.  1/2 cashew cookie larabar.  Oh man, that thing is GOOD

Dinner: NY strip steak, herb butter, sweet potato fries

Snacks: raspberries, almond butter, chia pudding

Exercise: C25K week 2 day 3.  Ice skated for about 50 minutes

Feelings.  I got sleepy.  I feel fat today.  I really wanted to eat junk food today because I'm sick of not being able to eat anything.  ARGH

Day 27/25

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs with guac and salsa

Lunch: meatball soup, apple, almond butter

Dinner: red curry with red peppers, shrimp, pineapple

Snack: a bunch of almonds

Exercise: walked home from work.  1.7 mi

Feelings: I woke up at 3:30am and had bad cramps and couldn't go back to sleep until 5.  So now I'm sleepy